Henry Charles Taylor
Name Henry Charles Taylor
Number Private 519
Battalion 21th Battalion
Place of Birth Melbourne
Next of Kin His mother, Mrs. Daisy Cashin of Tarwin Lower, widow
Date and place of enlistment Boolarra 13/1/1915
Physical details on enlistment Age 21 years and 2 months, 5’ 7”, 144 pounds, and light brown eyes
Religion Church of England
Occupation farm hand
Date and place of death
He was missing in action on 3/5/1917 at Bullecourt and was declared to have been killed at a Court of Enquiry held on 20/7/1917.
Location of memorial
He has no known grave and is remembered on the Memorial at Villers Bretonneux
Relationship to Woorayl Shire
He was from Tarwin Lower
Military History
- He is on the Meeniyan Honour Roll
- 13/1/15 He enlisted in Boolarra
- 10/5/15 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses
- 29/8/15 He was at Gallipoli
- 1/1/16 He had mumps and was admitted to the General Hospital Mudros
- He was ill in Heliopolis and Giza Egypt
- 31/5/16 He embarked Alexandria
- 5/6/16 He disembarked Marseilles
- 20/11/16 He went to France having been in England
- 27/1/17 He joined units
- In March he suffered from exhaustion
- 31/3/17 He rejoined his battalion
- 3/5/17 He was missing in action
- 20/7/17 He is declared to have been killed in action on 3/5/17 by a Court of Inquiry
- 7/8/21 Mrs. Cashin wrote asking for the location of his grave.
- Daisy asks for a pension as a widow and a mother of a dead soldier
- He is remembered on Villers Bretonneux Memorial
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